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Over 12,000 Fonts at Half Price!
SoftMaker is offering its MegaFont XXL 2.0 typeface collection at half price for a limited time for € 24.95 instead of € 49.95. Hurry. This deal will be over in only a few days.
This is a huge premium quality font collection of TrueType fonts. The collection includes a staggering 12,222 fonts that works on the latest Macintosh and Windows operating systems. The collection offers a typeface for virtually any purpose. The deal even includes a Windows font... Read Full Story
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PORTLAND, OR – Extensis has now added support for Macintosh OS 10.4 Tiger to its premiere font management software, Suitcase Fusion 2. As of March 31, 2009, version 13.1 added support for OS 10.4 Tiger to the popular font manager. Although the original release of Suitcase Fusion 2 only supported OS 10.5 Leopard at the time, Extensis has since upgraded it to work with OS 10.6 Snow Leopard and now responded to customers to add backward compatibility to OS 10.4 Tiger.
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LINOTYPE GMBH – The Linotype company has announced a new online Guided Tour video of its font management application, FontExplorer X Pro available here: http://www.fontexplorerx.com/macguidedtour/ . The video shows the Macintosh version of the software.
FontExplorer X Pro in Detail
The Guided Tour video explains most of the features of the program in detail. FontExplorer X Pro allows you to organize your fonts – just like media files – in a Library, Sets and Smart Sets and use them in a... Read Full Story
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This month’s free font download at Softmaker is Delano Caps. The font is available at http://www.freefont.de/us. It is available in 3 formats – Windows TrueType and Type 1 PostScript and Macintosh Type 1 PostScript.
Delano Caps is a Display font and its attributes include decorative, engraving, caps only. Delano Caps is similar to URW Dextor which was originally designed by L. Meuffels in 1994. Dextor was originally offered by the French company, Mecanorma. It is also offered by URW... Read Full Story
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Published to Mac OS X
The current versions of FontLab’s applications for Mac OS X require the Rosetta library to be installed in Mac OS X. Rosetta is not enabled by default in Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6).
Rosetta is a small (2 MB) library that comes with Mac OS X and enables Intel Macs to run PowerPC code. Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 installed Rosetta by default. Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard does not. If you’re installing Mac OS X 10.6 yourself, you can choose the “Customize” option during installation, and enable... Read Full Story
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This month’s free font download from Softmaker is Flagstaff. It is a display font that looks like it was inspired by the Op Art style of lettering that was popular in the U.S. in many photo type houses in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The Flagstaff font can be downloaded this month for free from http://www.freefont.de/us. It is available in PC TrueType and PostScript Type 1 formats and Macintosh PostScript Type 1 format. This font is very similar to the Glyphic Series originally designed by... Read Full Story
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Linotype offers new font licensing through a new EULA (end user license agreement) that permits EOT font embedding for non-commercial websites. Linotype states on its website that, “This is one small advancement toward the goal of offering Web designers the same level of typographic freedom that print designers enjoy.”
EOT Fonts
The EOT font format is for displaying typefaces on web pages that users would not normally have installed on their local computers. Fonts are converted to the EOT... Read Full Story
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This month’s free font download at Softmaker (http://www.freefont.de/us/index.htm) is Henderson. It is available in 3 formats: TrueType Windows, Type 1 PostScript Windows and Type 1 Macintosh. Henderson is based on the Linotype Hawthorn typeface. Hawthorn is a serif typeface created for display usage. It was created by Mike Daines in 1968.
Henderson combines both round and sharp stems and serifs and it has a distinct, late 60s feel. It is at home with the late 60s pop art feel of its era... Read Full Story
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This month’s free font download from Softmaker is Stone Handwriting. Each month, a new font is available as a free download from the same url: http://www.freefont.de/us/index.htm. There are a ton of handwriting fonts available online and a lot of them are unsuitable for many layouts because they are messy in appearance. This one has a nice, neat and clean feel. The characters have a uniform height, but does not appear to be draftsman-like, thus lending itself to informal usage without being... Read Full Story
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This month’s free font from Softmaker.de is Alte Schwabacher. This is one of the German black letter font standards. It is available this month from the url: http://www.freefont.de/us/index.htm. Another popular historical German black letter font is Fraktur. Read Full Story
